Napoleon looted the Quadriga sculpture from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in 1806 and took it to Paris, where it remained until 1814, when it was returned to Berlin after his defeat.
Learn the unwritten rules of Parisian café life, from ordering like a local to choosing the right table. Discover the etiquette, the drinks, and the neighborhoods where café culture thrives.
Inside the neoclassical dome that honors France’s greatest minds, from Voltaire to Marie Curie. Everything you need to know about visiting the Panthéon in the Latin Quarter.
From award-winning bakeries to neighborhood favorites, discover where Parisians buy their daily bread and what makes a truly great baguette.
Joan of Arc attacked Paris at Porte Saint-Honoré in September 1429 (where she was wounded), and her rehabilitation trial took place partly in Paris in 1456; the city now has multiple monuments to her including the statue at Place des Pyramides.
Beyond Monet’s Water Lilies, the Orangerie holds one of Paris’s most intimate art collections. Here’s your guide to the Walter-Guillaume collection and why this small museum deserves a full morning.
French Huguenots fled religious persecution in France after 1685 and settled at the Cape of Good Hope, where they established winemaking traditions and contributed to the region’s multicultural development alongside other communities including the Cape Malay, as documented in South African historical records and the Huguenot Memorial in Franschhoek.
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is located approximately 55 kilometers southeast of Paris; Nicolas Fouquet’s 1661 fête there directly led to Louis XIV commissioning Versailles using the same architects (Le Vau, Le Nôtre, Le Brun), and Fouquet’s art collection was confiscated and absorbed into royal holdings.
Escape to Paris’s largest green space, where a medieval château, working farm, Buddhist temple, and endless woodland trails await on the eastern edge of the city.
The legendary Champagne region lies just 90 minutes from Paris. Here’s how to visit Reims, Épernay, and the vineyards where the world’s most famous bubbly is born.
